I've seen people talking about using YouTube for personal video storage (not home personal, just fuck-you personal). Video on something you don't want to lose? Download, reupload unlisted/private and keep it forever. It's effectively free cloud storage through Google?

I know it's the opposite of de-googling, but it's also a pretty effective screw you.

Then you can just self host Piped and use it as the frontend and give piped links out instead of YT ones.

Free video storage, granted through Google, but with minimal given to YT due to lack of advertising from said stored videos. And theoretically, with self hosted Piped you'd not have to worry about buffering or stability - it's just your instance that you're sharing out. (This is just referring to me personally using piped.kavin.rocks and piped.video and sometimes the pages or videos not loading very quickly. I believe self-hosting it would mitigate that)